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I was born a jackdaw why should I try to be an owl?

Ogden Nash

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Ogden Nash
Age: 68 †
Born: 1902
Born: August 19
Died: 1971
Died: May 19
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
New York
United States
Frederic Ogden Nash
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Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as legislature.... So people who go to bed to sleep Must count French premiers or sheep, And people who ought to arise from bed Yawn and go back to sleep instead.
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A husband is a man who two minutes after his head touches the pillow is snoring like an overloaded omnibus.
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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Some debts are fun while you are acquiring them, But none are fun when you set about retiring them.
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You can take it as understood, That your luck changes only if it's good.
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Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's appointments, and all the flies in all the ointments, the daily woes that a man endures -- take them, George, they're yours!
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Marriage is the only known example of the happy meeting of the immovable object and the irresistible force.
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Certainly there are lots of things in life that money won't buy, but it's very funny- Have you ever tried to buy them without money?
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Some primal termite knocked on wood. And tasted it, and found it good. And that is why your Cousin May Fell through the parlor floor today.
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It is common knowledge to every schoolboy and even every Bachelor of Arts, That all sin is divided into two parts. One kind of sin is called a sin of commission, and that is very important
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So I hope husbands and wives will continue to debate and combat Over everything debatable and combatable Because I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life Particularly if he has income and she is pattable.
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Why did the Lord give use so much quickness unless it was to avoid responsibility?
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Where there is a monster, there is a miracle.
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Some people's money is merited and other people's is inherited.
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The song of canaries Never varies, And when they're moulting They're pretty revolting.
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A lady is known by the product she endorses.
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The old men know when an old man dies.
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One rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it/Never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it.
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When there are monsters there are miracles.
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I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it.
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